Metra Union Pacific Northwest train hits car in Des Plaines
Trains have been halted in both directions on the Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line, after a train hit a car on Monday afternoon in northwest suburban Des Plaines.
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Trains have been halted in both directions on the Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line, after a train hit a car on Monday afternoon in northwest suburban Des Plaines.
The train hit a Ford Focus near the crossing at Des Plaines River Road and Miner Street.
A man who was shot and killed by police in northwest suburban Des Plaines on Wednesday was threatening officers with an electric hedge trimmer and ignored officers to drop it, police said on Thursday.
The family of a 21-year-old shot and killed by Des Plaines police Wednesday said while he struggled with mental health, they are baffled by officers' use of force against him.
Officers shot and killed a man while responding to a domestic disturbance on Wednesday afternoon in northwest suburban Des Plaines, police said.
Des Plaines officers responded to a report of a domestic disturbance in the 2000 block of Touhy Avenue. Police said officers shot a male resident of the home while responding to the scene.
A year-long investigation has led to an arrest in a fatal shooting in northwest suburban Des Plaines.
Des Plaines police and fire officials said an explosion and fire at a condo building in May that injured 15 people was arson, and the suspected arsonist died from injuries he got during the incident.
Des Plaines police and fire officials said an explosion and fire at a condo building in May that injured 15 people was arson, and the suspected arsonist died from injuries he got during the incident.
Des Plaines Fire Chief Matt Matzel and Police Chief David Anderson announced the results of an investigation into a fire and explosion at a condo building in May, which they have determined was arson.
Des Plaines police and fire officials said an explosion and fire at a condo building in May that injured 15 people was arson, and the suspected arsonist died from injuries he got during the incident.
All service on the Metra Union Pacific Northwest Line was to be suspended all day Sunday.
Des Plaines police said they have opened an investigation into the death of a man found floating in Lake Opeka Wednesday.
Three lawsuits have been filed after an explosion and fire last week at a Des Plaines condo building.
One person was injured in a crash on I-90 early Tuesday morning.
Des Plaines police officers responded to the Vortex Vape shop on Saturday around 9 a.m. for an armed person barricaded inside the store.
Police said a 26-year-old man armed with a box cutter barricaded himself inside a strip mall vape shop on Saturday morning.
An explosion and fire at a Des Plaines condo building injured 15 people, three of them critically, overnight.
Fifteen people were hurt in a fire and explosion at a Des Plaines condo building overnight. Eight were hospitalized, three in critical condition. The five not critically injured have since been released.
Firefighters responded to a fire at a three-story building at 1279 Harding Ave just before 1 a.m. and found heavy flames and smoke.
Six people were injured in an apartment fire and reported explosion in Des Plaines, Illinois, overnight.
Four people were injured in an apartment fire and reported explosion in Des Plaines, Illinois, overnight.
Cook County Sheriff's police were investigating after a decomposing body was pulled out of a pond on Monday afternoon near Illinois State Police Troop 3 headquarters in unincorporated Des Plaines.
Two long-shuttered YMCA facilities and the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago's West Loop headquarters have gone up for sale, the YMCA confirmed Wednesday.
A new DMV is opening in Des Plaines on Tuesday.
